Lee High School

Lee High School is a four-year public high school that serves students in grades 9–12 from Huntsville, in Madison County, Alabama in the United States, as a part of Huntsville City Schools.HistoryLee High School was named for the Lee Highway which ran in front of the old school location in the 1950s, which in turn, was named after Confederate General Robert E. Lee. The school's mascot is now a 5-Star General and, for many years, a painting of General Robert E. Lee mounted on his horse and holding the Confederate flag was on the Gymnasium wall. In 1974 the flag was painted over and the Generals mascot is now held to represent no specific person.The original building was constructed in 1957 and opened in the later part of the 1957-1958 school year. The current facility for Lee High School was begun in 2010 and is being occupied for the 2012-2013 school year. According to the 1967–1968 Lee High School Student Handbook:"...Lee High School was established as a junior high school during the second semester of the 1957–58 school term. In the school term of 1963–64 Lee became a full high school, due to the procedure of discontinuing the lower grades and adding higher ones. The class of 1964 became Lee’s first graduating class. (Lee was Huntsville's Fourth High School. Huntsville, Butler and Councill were operating in 1964)During the past (1966–1967) school year, Lee’s enrollment was approximately 1700 students. The enrollment approximately for the 1967–68 school term is 1600 students. Still the need for more classrooms has caused Lee to add to its present building four new portable classrooms, raising the number of portable classrooms to seven..."The school operated as a Junior High School to allow for the eventual closure of nearby Rison High School and changed its status in tandem with the opening of Chapman Junior High School (later, Chapman Middle School).